Am 2013-07-23 11:02, schrieb Tyler J. Wagner: > On 2013-07-23 00:54, rblake3 wrote: >> What am I missing? What can I do to efficiently get the data copied >> from >> olddrive to newdrive without this problem? > The fastest way to do this is to do a blockwise copy of the old > drive/partition to the new, then expand the filesystem with resize2fs > or > parted. > > Unmount both drives, then: > > dd if=/dev/sdb1 of=/dev/sdc1 bs=1M > resize2fs /dev/sdc1
Spending nights and weekends copying disks with dd, I find bs-sizes of 4M to 16M to work much better then 1M. And a second console with "watch -i 10 killall -USR1 dd" gives you regular status. Have fun, Arnold ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See everything from the browser to the database with AppDynamics Get end-to-end visibility with application monitoring from AppDynamics Isolate bottlenecks and diagnose root cause in seconds. Start your free trial of AppDynamics Pro today! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48808831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
